In a male dominated society the persecution usually targeted women and girls.
In the hysteria of a witch-hunt the female population of a whole community could be accused.
Spinsters and maidservants, often ill-educated and with no-one to speak for them, were an easy target.
But even the most respectable of wives and daughters were at risk from malicious gossip or the grumblings of a slighted servant.
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